Vigilante - Ch. 110

[MangaDex]

 

[Kendama]

Damn, it's the Miryeo rapeface there at the end. Run for the hills if you don't wanna be in the fallout zone.

Also, the fuck is Jo Heon going on about? He isn't making any sense. I don't even know where to begin.

How can he scold Jiyong for using illegal methods when that's exactly what he was doing at the IPID, and what his original assignment was - extrajudicially eliminating the Vigilante for PR reasons?

And what is his plan? Let's drop "breaking the law to catch law breakers" and… what? What when the law breakers are the law makers and law enforcers? How exactly is he going to handle this case, if Jiyong obeys him and stops doing this?

Also, it grinds my gears that Jo Heon only started to care about "public order" when it was a cop who died. What of all the innocent civilians and whistleblowers who were dying like flies before Jiyong started wrecking Chairman Kim's operation? Aren't their lives important, too?

And seriously, what exactly does he think will happen to public order if Jiyong destroys this racket? Even if there's some political cabal behind it, it's not like it will be the end of the country and Korea will descend into anarchy. Does he really think their civil institutions are so fragile they can't weather a scandal? This series was written after Park Geun-hye was impeached and imprisoned for a corruption scheme that would make Kim Samdu and Eom Jaehyeop blush, and Korea is still there. Jo Heon is coming off as a big hypocrite, an idiot, or both.

In other news, how ironic: all the major antagonists are trying to find out who the Vigilante is, and now Awls and Easy Squeezy have found out by total accident. Jo Heon even said his name in their presence, though I think the magic hood will have hidden his face from them. Now I'm thinking this crucial piece of information will somehow find its way to Mr Bang & Co. How unfortunate… for them.

 

[YerRob]

Damn, it's the Miryeo rapeface there at the end. Run for the hills if you don't wanna be in the fallout zone.

Also, the fuck is Jo Heon going on about? He isn't making any sense. I don't even know where to begin.

How can he scold Jiyong for using illegal methods when that's exactly what he was doing at the IPID, and what his original assignment was - extrajudicially eliminate the Vigilante for PR reasons?

And what is his plan? Let's drop "breaking the law to catch law breakers" and… what? What when the law breakers are the law makers and law enforcers? How exactly is he going to handle this case, if Jiyong obeys him and stops doing this?

Also, it grinds my gears that Jo Heon only started to care about "public order" when it was a cop who died. What of all the innocent civilians and whistleblowers who were dying like flies before Jiyong started wrecking Chairman Kim's operation? Aren't their lives important, too?

And seriously, what exactly does he think will happen to public order if Jiyong destroys this racket? Even if there's some political cabal behind it, it's not like it will be the end of the country and Korea will descend into anarchy. Does he really think their civil institutions are so fragile they can't weather a scandal? This series was written after Park Geun-hye was impeached and imprisoned for a corruption scheme that would make Kim Samdu and Eom Jaehyeop blush, and Korea is still there. Jo Heon is coming off as a big hypocrite, an idiot, or both.

In other news, how ironic: all the major antagonists are trying to find out who the Vigilante is, and now Awls and Easy Squeezy have found out by total accident. Jo Heon even said his name in their presence, though I think the magic hood will have hidden his face from them. Now I'm thinking this crucial piece of information will somehow find its way to Mr Bang & Co. How unfortunate… for them.

Jo Heon is just having a mental breakdown cause he doesn't want to see MC die that much. He admires his massive sense of justice, but will never accept it because he believes it will just get him or other good people killed, so tries to demoralize him out of it at all times

 

[Cerisine]

My headcanon is that he is seeing his own failures and weakness in MC as well
Accepting the MC is right is denying the concessions and sacrifices he had to make to become who he is today, but he has no good argument against it. So he has to put on a strong front to hide it or risk his own foundation crumbling, hiding his flawed logic behind the threat of violence, something like that

 

[Kendama]

My headcanon is that he is seeing his own failures and weakness in MC as well
Accepting the MC is right is denying the concessions and sacrifices he had to make to become who he is today, but he has no good argument against it. So he has to put on a strong front to hide it or risk his own foundation crumbling, hiding his flawed logic behind the threat of violence, something like that

I think this makes sense. Considering that Jo Heon is a black-ops cop, his entire career has been mired in this dilemma, so of course he fails to articulate a reasonable argument against Jiyong's principles.

And yet, it's really simple. Jiyong doesn't seem to realise that it was one thing to extrajudicially punish unrepentant criminals who were already despised by society, and whose deaths left no room for doubt of their culpability; and it's another to throw those rules out of the window and begin punishing people whose evildoings aren't known to society at this point, even if they're clear to him and other people privy to the evidence.

Suppose he is successful and kills Eom Jaehyeop and whoever it is that's controlling him, along with Kim Sandu and his gangsters. Even if he follows up by handing over to reporter Choe high-quality evidence of their deeds, powers that be can still cause a split in public opinion by discrediting such evidence. People were already ambivalent over the killing of Pastor Shin, some saying the Vigilante had no business doing that as he had never been even near a court of law. I mean, we saw a couple chapters ago that the mainstream media is already busy discrediting reporter Choe, even going as far as suggesting the raid on her office might have been staged.

So Jiyong runs the risk of causing the government to label him a domestic terrorist while failing to garner public sympathy, which he considers essential to drive his agenda of stricter punishment in criminal sentencing. He may even cause his villainous targets to be sanctified as innocent victims of the Vigilante.

In the end, Jiyong needs to remember that his credibility comes from fixing the mistakes in the justice system. But for that, he needs to give justice the chance to make those mistakes. I hope events cause him to realise that eventually.